Improvement in masons  hods



'UNrrEn STATES BAROLAY O. MONROE, OF NEVBURG, NEW YORK.

vIMPROVEMENT IN MASONS HODS.

Specification formingpart of Letters Patent No. 145,675, dated December16, 1873; application lcd October 8, 1873.

ATo all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, BAROLAY C. MONROE, of Newberg, in the county ofOrange and State of New York, have invented certain new and usefulImprovements in Hods', and I do hereby declare the following to be afull, clear, and exact description of the invention, such as will enableothers skilled in the art to which it pertains to make and use it,reference being had to the accompanying drawings, which form part ofthis specication.

The nature of my invention relates to an improvement in hods and itconsists in forming the body of the hod of a single sheet of thin steel,as will be more fully described hereafter.

The accompanying drawings represent my invention.

a represents the body ofthe hod, made from a single sheet of thin steel,and having the end formed by splitting one end of the sheet a suflicientdistance, and then turning up the ends and riveting them together, or byforming the body by pressing it into shape at a single operation. Theshape of the body may be rounding, as shown, for carrying mortar, ortriangular for carrying bricks, whichever may be preferred.

"Where the body is made of wood, the mortar always adheres to it, andrequires to bescraped out, and then it becomes water logged and veryheavy. When made of sheet-iron, the

PATENT OFFICE body soon becomes so battered and broken as to beworthless, and, having to be strengthened around the edges by ironbands, costs as much as one made of steel, while it is far inferior.

Thin steel, while it is as lightas wood, will liever become battered andbroken, needs no strengthening bands, and can scarcely be worn out.Preferably, the body will be always stamped into shape without a singleseam, and there will be no rivets to rust out, or joints to becomeweakened. hen made of sheet-iron, rivets must always be used, and willalways be a source of weakness and trouble.

After the body is completed, the socket for the handle and the usual padwill be secured thereto in any desired manner, and the hod .whencomplete will be about one-third lighter than wood.

Having thus described my invention, l claim- As a new article ofmanufacture, a hod made from a single sheet of thin steel, and stampedinto the required form, substantially as shown and described.

In testimony that I claim the foregoing I h. ve hereunto set my handthis 8th day of October, 1873.

B. C. MONROE.

